Primary reader. Who specifically?
Reader task or doubt. What are they trying to understand, decide, or see?
Current model. What do they plausibly think before reading?
Valued subject. What do they already care about?
Instability. What makes their current model inadequate?
Consequence. Why does that inadequacy matter?
Intended change. What should the reader understand, notice, question, or do differently?
Central claim. One sentence.
Smallest sufficient source set. Only material needed to carry the claim, mechanism, evidence, qualification, and countercase.
Excluded or reserved material. Ideas that belong elsewhere.
Candidate sequences. Compare two or three genuinely different orders before locking.
Ending function. Recognition, decision, boundary, or sharper question.